Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Joining Pip for a bonus episode today is the wonderful wrestling fanatic, journalist and Tuesday Night Jaw host BOZZERS! Absolutely one for the wrestling heads right here - of course you would want to spend hours in Bozzers’ company anyway, no question, but right here this time the focus is on the wide world of wrestling. While the chat goes on to cover other elements of her illustrious life - her anxiety and dealing...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 343
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A fantastic catch up this week with Pip and star of Yesterday, Eastenders and a HUGE amount more - it’s HIMESH PATEL! A very nice chat which encompasses everything in Himesh’s inspirational rise to well earned fame and recognition, from those early days in acting school and his relationship with his parents throughout the process, to early gigs and his almost decade long run in Eastenders… Not only that - of course Y...
Sep 01, 2020•53 min•Ep. 342
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Joining Pip at long last this week is JOE TALBOT of IDLES! A very in-depth, therapeutic and cathartic chat for you this episode (actually - lemme get this out the way up top - it’s a LITTLE sweary so don’t play in front of the young’uns perhaps), as Pip and Joe get all the way into everything. Of course the mandatory ‘present times’ talk is addressed and lifted at the front, to then reveal the creepy crawlies and see...
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 341
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A long awaited and very welcome guest appearance by dear friend of the Distraction Pieces Network, it’s the very hilarious comedian and podcaster LOU SANDERS! Powerful goodness here (NOT recorded in a train station but certainly train-facing) from Pip and Lou, which goes into many angles of her awesome career - of which you can expect to hear about past Edinburgh Fringe experiences, her spirituality and being a secre...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 340
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A fantastic opportunity to catch up with the absolute ray of sunlight and director of Babyteeth (and Killing Eve), it’s Shannon Murphy! Proper film geekout brilliance as pip catches up with Shannon, talking all things film direction, small and big screen, promoting during lockdown, the whole world behind Babyteeth, Killing Eve goodness and just a whole world in between. Perfect bonus material for your Friday! EPISODE...
Aug 13, 2020•41 min•Ep. 339
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A double feature across the internet plains via Zoom as Pip chats with the stars of Young Offenders, Alex Murphy and Chris Walley! A great chance to get better acquainted with the duo, which goes into their acting origins and early days in the trade, Ireland’s Cork as a training ground, the third series of Young Offenders, the old skool days of appointment viewing, Love/Hate, Ireland for actors, early days of auditio...
Aug 11, 2020•59 min•Ep. 338
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Absolute hip hop perfection this episode as Pip has a proper full length chat with rapper/producer/composer - or for brevity’s sake, half of Run The Jewels - El-P! Whether you’re familiar with El-P from his way back underground (dare I say ‘indie rap’) days of Company Flow alongside Bigg Jus and Mr Len, and of course the label Def Jux (including his sonic architecture of the Cannibal Ox album), or his solo work weari...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 337
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A perfect meetup this week as Pip has a good old chat with poet, writer, counsellor and all round great dude JACK ROOKE! As a listener to Pip’s old radio show from back in the day, of course the two are gonna get on from jump - but that’s just the beginning, as they get into the real life stuff very soon and very deep. Everything from Jack’s work as a poet and writer, to Rob Auton and the Bang Said The Gun nights, CA...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 336
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! An awesome meeting this week as Pip spends time talking to one of the UK’s finest actors and a true pro, JASMINE JOBSON! Surely you will know Jasmine through her stellar work in Top Boy, but you may already be well aware of her acting skills outside of that. However you’ve become acquainted with Jasmine, you’ll hear a ton of goodness and greatness about her early life and some of what she’s experienced in those forma...
Jul 21, 2020•51 min•Ep. 335
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very long awaited guest appearance from one of the UK’s finest this week - everyone please be welcoming in your - well, welcome - to comedian and straight up legend DANE BAPTISTE! This one’s been on the cards for a minute, but finally the online moment has come and as the planets align, he we are with another goodie in the bag. While this was recorded about a week and a half-ish prior to the publish date, the topic...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 334
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very extra special edition of Distraction Pieces as Pip is joined by the eerily sober Stu Whiffen and Chris Glassen of the Hardcore Listing podcast to celebrate A MILLION DOWNLOADS!!! What a day… It’s no small thing getting up to a cool milly… Their hard work has truly paid off and it’s such a treat to hear them talking to Pip about the whole ride - but not in a self congratulatory way… They’re doing it in the medi...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 333
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very extra special edition of Distraction Pieces as Pip is joined by the eerily sober Stu Whiffen and Chris Glassen of the Hardcore Listing podcast to celebrate A MILLION DOWNLOADS!!! What a day… It’s no small thing getting up to a cool milly… Their hard work has truly paid off and it’s such a treat to hear them talking to Pip about the whole ride - but not in a self congratulatory way… They’re doing it in the medi...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 333
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Maybe you know Paapa Essiedu through his stellar Hamlet performance. Maybe you know him from starring in the absolutely stunning ‘I May Destroy You’, alongside the incredible Michaela Coel. Whatever degree you know Paapa, here’s a perfect chance to get all the better acquainted with him, as Pip has a chat with him about the whole lot and even more than that. From the themes of I May Destroy you, which leads on to a g...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 332
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles (aka Amplify Dot) joins Pip this week for a wonderful and in depth chat about the broad ranging topic of outrage. We all know what outrage is because invariably we’ve experienced it at some point in the very recent past or just in general in our internet / non-internet lives… It’s therefore fascinating to hear in more detail exactly what it is, how it is used, the mechanics of it and how we can...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 331
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A very timely and hugely informative Friday bonus for you this week, as Pip is joined by two guests, one after the other. The first is Alex S. Vitale (professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, US), followed by Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper (University Of Greenwich, humanities and social science department). With everything we’ve seen over the last month in most recent history, one sentiment and statement that’s been gaini...
Jun 18, 2020•59 min•Ep. 330
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by actor and now director SIMON BIRD, whom you may already be familiar with from such roles as Will from The Inbetweeners and Adam from Friday Night Dinner! Simon and Pip chat over the good old fashioned zoom app (you get that nice warmth and crackle over zoom), to catch up on all things acting and directing, as well as fatherhood and family life and how everything feeds into each other. A nic...
Jun 16, 2020•56 min•Ep. 329
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu! The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangent...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 328
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu! The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangent...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 328
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 328 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Distraction Pieces listeners and friends, please feel at home and very welcome in the warm, cosy confines of the third Isolation DrunkCast of 2020! This time round you are treated to a guest appearance from Jayde Adams and Rich Wilson, as well as Hardcore Listing crew Chris & Stu! The beauty of the DrunkCast episodes is that they can truly be their own beasts. They can contain any amount of tangent...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 328
Welcome, welcome, welcome to a very special re-release episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip. This episode is a re-release of episode 65 of DPP, where Pip spoke to Akala. This is such a perfect companion to the re-release of the Killer Mike episode, as it reflects upon certain similar issues but from a UK voice. Akala is someone who’s been fighting the good fight for years, whether it be dropping heavyweight albums or taking the public to school live on air with ease and c...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to a very special re-release episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip. This episode is a re-release of episode 12 of DPP, where Pip spoke to Killer Mike. Since the episode aired, it remains one of the most referenced episodes from Pip, and with good reason. Mike drops so much science that is not a casual listen. This is one to take time with, to reflect on and to pay attention to. What we’re seeing in the USA right now is an ongoing trauma which seem...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 326 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is going in on one of his older releases - his debut in fact - that’s right, Pip is going behind NO COMMERCIAL BREAKS! A true milestone in the path of all that is Pip, and with a look at the whole thing with the benefit of distance (social or otherwise) and hindsight, he is able to go through it with an objectivity but not without emotion. It’s interesting to hear the tracks that hit home...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 327
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 326 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A perfect return guest right here as Pip is joined once more by the inspirational philosopher, author and historian RUTGER BREGMAN! If you missed the first appearance then DEFINITELY go back and listen as it’s still immensely relevant and very interesting indeed, with a ton of goodness for some clear minded thinking. If you already caught that one, you’re in for some return greatness as Rutger and Pip ...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 326
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featur...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 325
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featur...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 325
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 325 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! We are still in lockdown (lockdown has been lifted), and while we’re all going in to work (no going into work) and staying alert (SO much more alert than usual), Pip decided to round up a willing crew for some further drunk antics by way of the second ISOLATION DRUNKCAST! This one right here is the Back To The Future / Godfather / Karate Kid of podcasts. A three parter of crazy huge proportions, featur...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 325
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 324 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! A true extra special treat for you this episode, as Pip is flying solo BUT with the company of a ton of heavyweight musical material... It’s the ‘Behind The Album’ Distraction Pieces edition! There has to be a GOOD amount of you out there who regard Distraction Pieces as one of Pip’s greatest works... If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch him live around the time you will have seen and heard venues ...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 324
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 323 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by the hosts of the brand new Distraction Pieces Network podcast, Mum & Mummer - it’s Amy and Harry! This is the PERFECT opportunity to get yourself better or newly acquainted with Amy and Harry, if you haven’t had the chance yet. Mum & Mummer is a fantastic podcast which deals with the honesty and rawness of being a mum in the modern world, and all of the weird and wond...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 323
Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 322 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week folks, you have Pip ALL TO YOURSELF you greedy things you. All the Pip you can handle. Drink it in, people - it’s another ASK PIP SESSION! THIS IS PART 2! The same as part one but different questions and answers. So you could say really that it is not at all like the previous episode. But let's not let ourselves get lost in the weeds here eh. Please enjoy your second serving of pure acapella ...
Apr 22, 2020•45 min•Ep. 322
Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 322 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week folks, you have Pip ALL TO YOURSELF you greedy things you. All the Pip you can handle. Drink it in, people - it’s another ASK PIP SESSION! A two parter at that! Come on now. On this one, the format is tried and tested and never fails, although in this occasion Pip is indoors getting his isolation on, and pacing around his living room while answering those burning questions from you the dear l...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 322
